Cigar-box label



(No Model.)

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CIGAR Box LABELQ' N 0., 355,015. Patented Dec. 218, 1886.

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UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. HENSOHED, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

CIGAR-BOX LABEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.355,0l5, dated December28, 1886.

Application filed October 23, 1886. Serial No. 216.991. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. HENSCHEL, of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cigar-Box Labels, of which the following is aSpecification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the labels usually fastenedto the inner side of the covers of cigar-boxes.

The object of my invention is to provide the cigar-box with a label insuch a manner that the label has a better appearance when the box isopened and'is in such a position that it can be seen by the personexamining the cigars without requiring the person to bend over the box.

The invention consists in a label or fancy card pasted at one edge tothe inner side of the cigar-box cover near the hinged edge of saidcover, to the back of which label a paper or pasteboard brace isfastened, the free end of which can be rested on the cigar-box cover tokeep the label or card at an inclination. When the box is closed,thelabel is folded fiat against the inner side of the cover of the box.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of acigarbox provided with myimproved label. Fig. 2 is a cross sectionalview of the boX and label.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The label or picturecard A is pasted at its bottom edge to the innersurface of the cover B,a short distance from the hinged edge of saidcover. pasteboard brace, O, is pasted near the upper To the back of thelabel a paperbr or free end of the-said label, the free end of saidbrace being adapted to rest on the inner surface of the cigar-box cover,as shown in Fig. 2, for the purpose of holding the label raised and atan inclination to the inside of the cover. When the label is raised, asshown in the drawings, it is displayed more conspicuously than whenresting flat on the inside of the cover. It is then an ornament to theshowwindow in which the cigars are exposed to view, and when thecigar-box is empty thelabel can be torn off and used as an ornament oras apresent for children. WVhen the box is closed,the label rests flatagainst the inside of the cover of the cigar-box, and the brace isfolded between the label and the cover.

Having thus described my invention, Iclai m as new andldesire to securebyLetters Patent 1. The combination, with a cigar-box, of a picture-cardor label fastened at one edge to the inside of the cover, and providedwith a brace, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a cigar-box, of a picture-card or labelfastened to swing on one 60 edge of the'inside of the cigar-box cover,and a folding brace fastened to the back of the label and resting on theinside of the cover, sub stantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my 65 invention I have signedmy name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

G. B. HENSCHEL.

Witnesses:

CHAS. M. Bron, G. MOWHORTER.

